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Jill Z
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Because some times you just have to say f**k it. LOuisVillE, Earper, Fandras
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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 1h
The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3h
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 12h
Hey California, let’s stop Trump from rigging the maps, vote Yes on Proposition 50. Send your ballot today.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h
When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d
Israel’s new “agreement” with Hamas isn’t a peace deal, it’s a tactical pause. Troops remain inside Gaza, “repositioned,” not withdrawn. Netanyahu says they’ll still “act against threats.” Hostages will return to Israel, but peace isn’t next. It’s waterfront property for Trump.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d
The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d
When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win
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delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d
everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d
Thanks, Congress.
Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums
The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t even know Habeas. He was a coffee boy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.
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Jill Z @jillzoll.bsky.social · 3d
Why is Mike Johnson so scared of having the Epstein Files released?
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Democrats @democrats.org · 3d
House Republicans just adjourned their pro forma session.

This is the fifth time they’ve refused to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.
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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 4d
This here’s a man of the people.
Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 4d
Ice Fishing in Portland
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d
I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 4d
Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.
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Jill Z @jillzoll.bsky.social · 4d
I thought cravenly Kevin "here's your red Starbursts I picked out by hand, sir" McCarthy was the lowest a Speaker of the House could go.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d
Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d
This is so dark
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.
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Jill Z @jillzoll.bsky.social · 4d
How brave of her to stand out in a war zone without a helmet or flak jacket.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 4d
Pam Bondi is supposed to be a public servant.

The performance at today's hearing - an utterly horrific display - indicates she is fully comfortable letting taxpayers know: she is Trump's lawyer, not America's.

Zero shame and zero checks by Republicans:
www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...
Pam Bondi Has A Full On Meltdown Over Simple Questions About Trump
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee let the attorney general run all over lawmakers.
www.huffpost.com
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d
This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4d
MAGA: “why didn’t Biden release the files and why didn’t you guys call for it?!”

America: “Because we assumed the justice dept was doing their job. But you all demanded it and now Trump is panicking…. So uh, ya now we def want to know why he’s panicking.”

See? Easy!
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